Online Course in Economics in United Kingdom

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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom and Britain, is a sovereign state located off the north-western coast of continental Europe.The two most famous (and oldest) universities are Oxford and Cambridge (often referred to as Oxbridge by many Britons) England also has several other world-class institutions, including several in London (notably Imperial College, the London School of Economics, University College London and King's College London, all are part of London University)

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FutureLearn

In this course, you will develop an understanding of how customer relationship management breeds business development success and will critically evaluate accepted wisdom on how marketing influences customers. You will also learn how selling has transitioned from being a ‘foot in the door’ to having a ‘finger on the pulse’, using insight-driven approaches to win those all-important sales.
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Online Courses in Economics in United Kingdom. Course in Digital Economy Program - Customer Insight
This course is part of the The Digital Economy program, which will enable you to thrive in the digital economy and earn 15 credits towards an MBA.
No matter how sophisticated your marketing is, if it doesn’t result in attracting customers, then your business is set to fail. This free online course applies fresh thinking to how marketing and selling activities combine to create customers who keep coming back.
Build a holistic view of your customers
Perspectives on the role and behaviour of customers are changing, with marketers drawing on increasingly powerful information systems to build a holistic view of consumers.
In this course, you will develop an understanding of how customer relationship management breeds business development success and will critically evaluate accepted wisdom on how marketing influences customers. You will also learn how selling has transitioned from being a ‘foot in the door’ to having a ‘finger on the pulse’, using insight-driven approaches to win those all-important sales.
Thrive in the digital economy
The Digital Economy: Selling Through Customer Insight is one of four courses from The Open University about the digital economy, designed to help experienced managers get to grips with today’s technology-enabled business environment.
The course has been developed by The Open University Business School – a pioneering institution that is triple accredited by AMBA, EQUIS and AACSB.
Holders of FutureLearn Certificates of Achievement for all four Digital Economy courses can earn 15 UK credits towards The Open University Business School’s flexible MBA by passing a linked Open University assessment module (requiring separate OU registration and fee).
Requirements
This course is intended for anyone who wants to learn about attracting and retaining customers. No previous experience of studying sales or marketing is required, but some basic knowledge of how businesses work would be beneficial.
Find further information about OU registration, the assessment module and MBA in the entry requirements. The Open University does not operate in Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan and Syria. This means that Learners based in those countries will not be able to convert their participation in this Program to Open University course credits.
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Gaia Education

Never has there been a better time and a more urgent need to create a more resilient and participatory future by turning our attention to alternative economic paradigms. If you feel stuck or uncertain about what you can do and yearn to open the door to these new possibilities then our e-learning programme is for you.
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Never has there been a better time and a more urgent need to create a more resilient and participatory future by turning our attention to alternative economic paradigms. If you feel stuck or uncertain about what you can do and yearn to open the door to these new possibilities then our e-learning programme is for you.
Many know that our current economic system is no longer sustainable, yet few are aware of the alternatives? Our aim is to give you a better understanding of those alternatives and the true meaning of economy and wealth. Participants will learn about existing systems and tools that are useful, and redesign those that have proven dysfunctional based on already tested alternatives.
To do nothing is to accept that but a handful of economists and political leaders still believe the answer to our problems is more economic growth – more production, more consumption, more highways, more buildings, more logging, more fishing, etc., ad infinitum. By continuing to collectively pay for this dysfunctional system through our taxes, we are all becoming accomplices in more environmental despoliation and ever increasing debt serfdom as we remain addicted to growth and the way money is created.
"The Third Industrial Revolution will also bring with it a more democratic economy. The distributed nature of renewable energies necessitates collaborative rather than hierarchical command and control mechanisms. This new lateral energy regime establishes the organizational model for the countless economic activities that multiply from it. A more distributed and collaborative industrial revolution, in turn, invariably leads to a more distributed sharing of the wealth generated." Jeremy Rifkin
What you will learn
The Dimension is authored by Daniel C. Wahl (Gaia Education) and Jonathan Dawson (Schumacher College).
MODULE 1: Shifting the Global Economy Towards Sustainability and Regeneration
Dangerous ideology - Why we need to revisit basic assumptions about economics
Unacceptable collateral damage
Dysfunctional systems in need of re-design
Turing the global economy towards sustainability
Signs of hope
MODULE 2: Community Banks and Currencies
What money is and how it works
Impacts of our current money system
Reforming money to make it work for people and planet
Locally and regionally-based investment and currency systems
Microcredit, microfinance and crowdfunding
Local investment: credit unions, cooperative banks, community land trusts and co-ops
MODULE 3: Right Livelihood
GDP as an insufficient economic indicator
Alternative national- and international-level indicators
Alternative community-level indicators & participatory budgeting
Values and ethics in economic life
Collaborative consumption and peer-to-peer collaboration
The Service Space story – Design for generosity
MODULE 4: Revitalising Local Economies & Social Innovation
Plugging the leaks
Mapping the history of and potential for regional production for regional consumption
How a solidarity economy creates thriving and resilient communities and regions
Social innovation and social entrepreneurship
Supporting social innovators and entrepreneurs
Identifying opportunities for social entrepreneurs
Ecovillage economies: opportunities, challenges and lessons
Regenerative enterprises
MODULE 5: Legal and Financial Issues
Running a social enterprise
Designing sustainable business models
Types and sources of finances
Choosing legal structures
Preparing feasibility studies and business plans
The cooperative path
Learning the art of commoning
‘Open Source Everything’ enables a collaborative commons
‘Earth Rights’ are the legal basis for a sustainable and regenerative future
“Thirty plus years of research and analysis have convinced me that true political democracy cannot prevail until economic democracy has been achieved, and economic democracy cannot be achieved without transcending the global, central-banking, interest-based, debt-money regime and the debt-growth imperative that is built into it.” Thomas H. Greco, Jr
What you will receive
You will acquire have the confidence, understanding and ability to take active steps in this vital area of sustainability
Faculty bios, methodology, course background, administrative details, and guidelines
A training document in the form of a textbook, with readings, latest research, examples, links, handouts, and additional resources
A Student Guide's description of each dimensions' learning outcomes, objectives and timeline, plus a set of activities for each module of the learning journey
Access to the virtual campus, where you join our classrooms, forums, design teams, direct communication with tutors, sample materials, all learning materials and activities for certificate, and social media related to the course
Orientation to the virtual campus, e-learning tools and the Moodle platform
Full technical and academic support to go through the virtual course and achieve all the learning outcomes
Access to specific course community in Facebook
A Certificate of course completion from Gaia Education
Earn credits to continue onto our flagship certificated programme in Sustainability & Design
"Transformative innovation applied to redesigning the human presence on Earth requires global cooperation in the process of building circular and regionally focused economies in support of resilient communities and the regeneration of their ecosystems. Thriving regional economies, supported by scale-linking collaboration and global solidarity, are the basis for collaborative abundance for all." Daniel Christian Wahl
"A simple story lies at the heart of our current economic system. It is a story of separation between humanity and nature. This story creates alienation, lack of belonging, fear and the need to control. Living this story ultimately makes us see through a lens of scarcity and competition for limited resources. Instead of living well within planetary boundaries and in collaborative abundance shared between all of humanity and life as a whole, we have chosen a path of trying to predict, control, manipulate and exploit nature as if we were somehow separate from life’s life-sustaining cycles that maintain this planet in habitable conditions for complex organisms like us." Diana Leaf
More information
This dynamic programme commences on the 6th of March 2017 for a duration 8-weeks and comprises 80 hours of study time. It will equip the participant with the understanding and abilities to become more confident within this crucial field.
Your investment for our Economic Design Dimension is £297. This can also be taken as an integrated module within in our 10 month certificated program in Sustainability and Design. Additional modules covered here are worldview, social design, ecological design and design studio. The investment for the full programme is £997.
Our graduates have gone on to contribute to sustainability projects, build communities, become social entrepreneurs, partake in permaculture projects & bio-dynamic farming, support transition movements and much more.
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